The Ten Thousand Bulb Challenge

We are a small troop of guerrilla gardeners based in Glasgow, Scotland. We've been working on neglected patches of land around central Glasgow since August of last year. All our work is funded out of our own pockets and occasional donations from supportive members of the public.

In an effort to attract more help and get our city looking fabulous we've launched the Ten Thousand Bulb Challenge.

* Picture on the right is of our Wilson Street site. All bulbs pictured were planted by us*

With summer slipping by rapidly- yes it really is July not a mass calender based prank- our thoughts have turned towards the coming year. So now that you're all depressed allow us to cheer you up by introducing the Ten Thousand Bulb challenge.

Those of you who've visited our site at Townhead (pictured) will be aware it's a fair old size so in order to get it looking really good for next spring we need bulbs and lots of them. We are aiming to attract sufficient donations in either cash or bulbs to let us blanket our Townhead and Wilson Street sites in thousands of blooms.

Between now and December 31st 2009 we aim to obtain and plant a whopping ten thousand bulbs and will be frenziedly panhandling for the next few months to supplement our own contributions. If you'd like to help out you can either use the paypal button on our blog to make a donation, bring a bag of bulbs along to a dig or contact us to arrange to send bulbs to one of the troops.

If you have a business or website you'd like to promote we'll be happy to write a short post highlighting your donation on our blog and add a link to our sidebar in return. We do get the occasional bit of press interest and our blog attracts a good amount of traffic so it's an excellent way to advertise cheaply whilst helping us out. We are also quite happy for you to publicise your donation and may be open to participating in any susequent publicity as long as we're not asked to tell fibs, dance, dress up or sing.

In the event we exceed our target any excess will be put towards our gardening activities. We've a lot of land to cover and the 10,000 bulb project is only the tip of the iceberg.

600 Mixed Daffodils

930 Mixed Tulips

950 Snakeshead Fritillaries

Snowdrops TARGET MET

800 Mixed Crocuses

1000 English Bluebells (native only please)

Grape Hyacinths -TARGET MET

Winter Aconites- TARGET MET

Alluims -TARGET MET

1000 Native Wood Anenone

We've selected the above for their ability to naturalise, visual impact and beneficial effect on wildlife, apart from tulips who're there to look nice and little else.

Successfully naturalised daffodil fields have been known to last for up to fifty years which means if we meet our target our sites will be in bloom in 2059.

We'll be planting our first donated bulbs up at Townhead on 29th August at 11:30am if anyone fancies joining us with a bag or two of bulbs from the above list.

*Picture of our Wilson Street site*

1. Bookmark this page and return often for updates. We earn a small royalty for visits to this site. If you're reading this you're already helping.

2. Buy via this site. Everytime you enter the eBay or Amazon sites via our page and make a purchase we will get a percentage at no extra cost to you.

3. Join Squidoo via this page and we'll earn a bonus royalty.

4. Send us your bulbs. Contact clairwil123AThotmailDOTcom for details of where to post your donated bulbs.

5. Link to us from your lens, blog or website.

6. Donate cash via paypal to the above email address.

7. Tweet this page.

8. Tell everyone you know about us and encourage them to help out by undertaking at least one action from this list.

9. Come along to our big bulb planting events in August 2009 (details to be announced nearer the time)

10. If you like this page, give it a good rating to boost it's Squidoo page rank and help us attract more traffic.

*Above picture is of our site on Wilson Street, Glasgow, once again it's all our own plants (except the butterfly bush)*

10p buys a single bulb

£1 buys ten bulbs

£10 buys one hundred bulbs

£100 buys one thousand bulbs

£955 buys the full ten thousand

July 2009- £198.95
August 2009 -£40.00

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